I've been a super fan of MOOCs for the past 2 years now and I've always wanted to build something for the community. I wanted to build something that would help make MOOCS more fun and would help the community grow.

Today, after several months of hard work, I'm excited to announce the launch of Find Study Buddies on Stacks!

On Stacks, you create a profile of all of the courses you have completed, are currently taking, or are interested in. Our algorithm will then match you up with other learners who have similar interests. From there, you can add each other as Study Buddies!

Having a Study Buddy is meant to be a meaningful connection that can serve a number of different purposes. You and your Study Buddy can ask and answer questions about your course via the Stacks messenger. You can arrange time to meetup and study on Skype, Hangouts, Discord, etc. Or you can even just rely on each other for motivation and social accountability - anytime you start a new course it will show up on your buddy's news feed and they will get an email notification.

At the moment, our course catalog consists of all courses from Udacity. As well as all courses from Coursera, edX, and The Great Courses.

I, as well as several members of our community, would love for you all to join!

The course ended up not being what I wanted at all, and when I tried to get a refund, the button to cancel literally didn't load (it stayed the spinny thing). I sent two requests to Udacity through their site - one that day and a follow up a few days later. No response. I send an email to their payment support. No response. I send another email to their plain support a few days after that. No response. Now, at this point, I don't know what to do. It's been over a week and a half since my first request and I haven't received anything but silence.

So, like every other Udacitty scholarships, this also involves two phases and I have been selected for phase 1. After reading lots of stories in this sub about how Udacity makes participants as PR and tries to milk most of it, I am bit vary of the programme. however, since I have been selected, I would like to make most of it.

I was wondering if any of you guys know about any of the alternatives available to learn about android. I have tried out Udemy (I checked a lot of courses here) and TreeHouse but content-wise, most of it was either outdated or did not cover many advanced parts of Android. I'm really looking to learn more about Advanced topics like in-depth RecyclerView, Retrofit2, etc... and I was looking for a paid program that is nicely structured.

The Data Analyst Nanodegree (DAND) is being phased out. The DAND program had two terms, where in the first you were taught programming basics in python (including numpy and pandas) and SQL. The second term involves (as I can surmise) completing projects using practical applications of what one learned in term 1, along with more focused skills and techniques. However, they're replacing DAND with two separate curricula. I took term 1 a couple months ago, and long story short, kind of gave up halfway being swamped with work and personal things and basically being depressed. However, before completely removing DAND offerings, they're taking a couple more cohorts for term 2 to close out the year. This is a pretty long exposition to my question: what can I do to prepare myself for term 2? I didn't complete the last two projects of term 1, which were exploring a data set and A/B testing. Can anyone recommend resources that I could go through, so that I could feel adequately prepared for term 2 later this year?

I just started getting into programming like 5 months ago. The website which got my attention was Udacity because people were saying it has Nanodegrees that guarantee you a job with their valuable certificate and if you decide not to pay for them, all the courses are available for free. So I took the free way and I've been taking the free courses of the Android Basics Nanodegree and it's going well so far! When I finish, I want to take The Become an Android Developer nanodegree but it's so expensive. Right now it's at $690 (converted from my local currency). Is it worth it? And is the certificate more valuable than other sites like edX and Coursera? Will this Nanodegree alone guarantee a job?

So I enrolled for a nanodegree and then cancelled it (on September 5). By now, I've already received my refund on my card, but I can still view the course content on Udacity.

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I'm now thinking, since I'm allowed to view the course content, to just go through the course and see what it's made of anyway. But is there anything wrong with what's happening here. Can Udacity come up and say, "Oh, hey, it looks like you've checked out all the course content. We're going to charge your card for this."?

Hello, I want to get into ios web development, I know css and html and very very very basic HTML, but I love iOS and I want to learn and make things and even get a job, and I'm thinking about ios nanodegree, but it has changed allot, so I would like to get some feedback and can someone who never used xcode before do it?!

And one more question; first term is $999, is that like for both terms ir the second term price will be a separate $999 as well?!

I did contact them for that but thier answer was so vague to be honest.